trailed Saint Pauls College (1%), Hebrew Theological College (27%), College of St Joseph (37%), and Brewton-Parker College (42%), and others, ending with Bellin College (100%).

4 out of the other 1,278 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for full-time retention rate, e.g., Gordon State College.

1. Student retention data are from the file total entering class, retention rates, and student-to-faculty ratio: Fall 2012 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. Whether a college requires test scores (SAT or ACT) for undergraduate admission is from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (Provisional Release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Penn State-World Campus is in Univ Park, PA, is public, degree-granting, has a nursing major, has its top major in nursing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Associates major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($12,962)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($12,962)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,264)
• endowment per full-time student ($8,060)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($6,066)
• undergrads who get financial aid (93%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (78%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (64%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (55.1%)
• in-state freshmen (44.2%)
• minorities (15%)
• Blacks or African Americans (6.3%)
• Hispanics (5.2%)
• Asians (3.3%)
• foreign students (1.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• full-time retention rate (0%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (440)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (450)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (440)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (510)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (540)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (550)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (27.2 degrees)
• first-year applicants (499)
• foreign students (124)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,600)
• yearly for-credit students (10,316)
• students per faculty member (24)
• annual rainfall (39.6 inches)
• elevation (350 meters)

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